Amerikanistik Leseliste

Amerikanistik Leseliste
LMU München: Grundkurs Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte empfohlen Hubert Zapf. Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1997.	Bei Amazon nachschauen

Diese Tabelle ist eine Kopie der Seiten des Instituts für Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte an der LMU.
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1. Anfänge der amerikanischen Literatur

2. Romantik

3. Jahrhundertwende 19./20.

4. Zwischen den Weltkriegen

5. Nach dem 2. Weltkrieg

6. Filmliste

7. Schwerpunkt "Theorie"

1. Anfänge der amerikanischen Literatur

Edward Taylor. "Meditation 32 (First Series)". Colonial Am. Writing. 2nd Edition. Hg. Roy Harvey Pearce, New York, Chicago: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1969, 442-44.

Anne Bradstreet. "A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment". Anthology of Am. Lit. I. Colonial Through Romantic. Hg. George McMichael, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974, 100.

Cotton Mather. "Magnalia Christi Americana". Anthology of Am. Lit. I. Colonial Through Romantic. Hg. George McMichael, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974, 155-64.

William Byrd II. "The Secret Diary"; "The History of the Dividing Line". Anthology of Am. Lit. I. Colonial Through Romantic. Hg. George McMichael, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974, 196-201; 204-11.

Michel Guillaume - Jean de Crèvecoeur. "Letter III"; "Letter IX". Anthology of Am. Lit. I. Colonial Through Romantic. Hg. George McMichael, New York: Macmillan Publishing, Co., Inc., 1974, 429-45.

Thomas Jefferson. "The Declaration of Independence"; "Notes on the State of Virginia". Anthology of Am. Lit. I. Colonial Through Romantic. Hg. George McMichael, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974, 468-79.

Benjamin Franklin. The Autobiography. New York, Chicago: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1959.

Rezension

Gustavus Vassa. The Life of Alaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself. Great Slave Narratives. Hg. Arna Bontemps. Boston: Beacon Press Boston, 1969, 1-192.

Rezension zu Olaudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

Washington Irving. "Rip Van Winkle"; "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". Anthology of Am.Lit. I. Colonial Through Romantic. Hg. George McMichael. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974, 602-40.

Charles Brockden Brown. Edgar Huntly. Hg. David Stineback. New Haven: The New College and University Press, Inc., 1973.

2. Romantik

Frederick Douglass. "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave". The Heath Anthology of Am.Lit. Vol. 1. Hg. Paul Lauter. Lexington, Mass., Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company, 1990, 1640-1703.

Rezension

Harriett Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin. New York u.a.: Viking Penguin Inc., 1981.

Rezension

Herman Melville.
"Bartleby, the Scrivener"

Rezension; "Billy Budd, Sailor"

Rezension.
The Heath Anthology of Am.Lit. Vol. 1. Hg. Paul Lauter. Lexington, Mass., Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company, 1990, 2405-31; 2523-81.

Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Nature". The Heath Anthology, 1990, 1471-98.

Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Woman". Emerson's Works, Miscellanies. Boston: The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1884, 335-56.

Margaret Fuller. Auszug aus "Woman in the Nineteenth Century". The Norton Anthology of Lit. by Women. Hg. Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar. New, York/London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1985, 295-301.

Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Blithedale Romance. Hg. Seymour Grass, Rosalie Murphy. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1978. –

Zitate

Nathaniel Hawthorne. Preface zu "The House of the Seven Gables". Anthology of Am.Lit. I. Colonial Through Romantic. Hg. George McMichael. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974, 1086-87.

Nathaniel Hawthorne. "The Birthmark". The Heath Anthology of Am.Lit. Vol. 1. Hg. Paul Lauter. Lexington, Mass., Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company, 1990, 2101-12.

Nathaniel Hawthorne. "Roger Malvin's Burial". Hawthorne: Selected Tales and Sketches. New York, Chicago: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, 46-67.

Edgar Allan Poe. Rezension zu Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales. Anthology of Am.Lit.I. Colonial Through Romantic. Hg. George McMichael. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974, 825-29.

Edgar Allan Poe. "The Tell-Tale Heart". The Heath Anthology of Am.Lit.. Vol. 1. Hg. Paul Lauter. Lexington, Mass., Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company, 1990, 1369-72.

Edgar Allan Poe. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Hg. Edward H. Davidson. Boston: The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1956, 139-71.

James Fenimore Cooper. The Pioneers. New York, Chicago...: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966.

Walt Whitman. Cantos 5, 6, 24, 49-52 aus "Song of Myself". Anthology of Am.Lit. I. Colonial Through Romantic. Hg. George McMichael. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974, 1779-1828.

Emily Dickinson. "There's a certain Slant of light"; "Because I could not stop for Death"; "I heard a Fly buzz when I died"; "I'm ceded - I've stopped being Theirs". The Norton Anthology of Lit. by Women. Hg. Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1985, 844; 712; 465; 508.

Emily Dickinson. "Of Bronze and Blaze". Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems. Select. and Introd. Thomas H. Johnson. Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Cie., 1961, 49-50.

Emily Dickinson Gedichte

3. Jahrhundertwende

Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". Anthology of Am.Lit. II. Realism to the Present. Hg. George McMichael. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974, 297-517; 279-84.

William Dean Howells. A Modern Instance. Hg. William M. Gibson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957.

Henry James. The Turn of the Screw. Hg. Robert Kimbrough. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1966.

Thomas Nelson Page. "Marse Chan". In Ole Virginia, or Marse Chan and Other Stories. Chapel Hill: The Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1969, 1-38.

Paul Lawrence Dunbar. "The Ordeal at Mt. Hope". Folks from Dixie. New Jersey: The Gregg Press, 1968, 29-65.

Charles Waddell Chesnutt. "The Sheriff's Children". The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line. Michigan: The Univ. of Michigan Press, 1968, 60-93.

Kate Chopin. The Awakening.

Rezension Auch in The Norton Anthology of Lit. by Women. Hg. Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1985, 1184-1199.

Kate Chopin. "Desirée's Baby".

Rezension
The Heath Anthology of Am.Lit. Vol. 2. Hg. Paul Lauter. Lexington, Mass., Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company, 1990, 628-32.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman. "The Yellow Wallpaper". The Norton Anthology of Lit. by Women. Ed. Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1985, 1148-61.

Abraham Cahan. "Yekl". Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1970, 1-89.

Theodore Dreiser. Sister Carrie. New York, Chicago u.a.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1957.

Rezension

Edith Wharton. "The Other Two". The Norton Anthology of Lit. by Women. Hg. Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1985, 1184-99.

Edith Wharton. "Roman Fever". The Am. Tradition in Literature. Vol. 2. Hg. Sculley Bradley, Richmond Beatty, E. Hudson Long. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., 1967, 912-23.

4. Zwischen den Weltkriegen

Ernest Hemingway. "Hills Like White Elephants". The Heath Anthology of Am. Lit. Vol 2. Hg. Paul Lauter. Lexington, Mass., Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company, 1990, 1390-93.

Rezension

Ernest Hemingway. "The Killers". The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. New York: Charles Scribener's Sons, 1953, 279-89.

Rezension

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	Ernest Hemingway: The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Scribner Book Company, 1998. Taschenbuch, 672 Seiten
	Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories. James Fenton, Hg. Everyman's Library 1995. Gebunden, 788 Seiten

Gertrude Stein. "The Gentle Lena".
The Norton Anthology of Lit. by Women. Hg. Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1985, 1307-32.

F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribener's Sons, 1961.

Rezension

William Faulkner. The Sound and the Fury. Hg. David Miner. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1987.

Zora Neale Hurston. Their Eyes were watching God. London: Virago Press, 1987.

Langston Hughes. Not Without Laughter. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1969.

Richard Wright. "Long Black Song". Uncle Tom's Children. New York u.a.: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965, 103-28.

Richard Wright. "Blueprint for Negro Writing". The Black Aesthetic. Hg. A. Gayle, Jr.. N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972, 315-26.

Eugene O'Neill. The Emperor Jones. Auch in O'Neill Complete Plays 1913-1920. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1988, 1029-61.

Clifford Odets. Waiting for Lefty. Auch in The Heath Anthology of Am.Lit. Vol. 2. Hg. Paul Lauter. Lexington, Mass., Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company, 1990, 1631-48.

Wallace Stevens. "Sunday Morning". The Heath Anthology of Am.Lit. Vol. 2. Hg. Paul Lauter. Lexington, Mass., Toronto: D.C. Heath & Company, 1990, 1394-98.

Ezra Pound. "Canto I". The Heath Anthology..., 1990, 1179-82.

T.S. Eliot. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". The Heath Anthology..., 1990, 1301-04.

William Carlos Williams. "Young Sycamore". The Heath Anthology..., 1990, 1214.

William Carlos Williams. "This is just to say". Anthology of Am.Lit. II. Realism to the Present. Hg. George McMichael. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974, 1367.

William Carlos Williams. "At Dawn". The Collected Poems of W.C. Williams Vol. 1, 1909-1939. Hg. A. Walter Litz & Christopher MacGowan. New York: New Direction Books, 1986, 36.

Louise Bogan. "Women". The Norton Anthology of Lit. by Women. Hg. Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1985, 1612.

Langston Hughes. "Mother to Son". Selected Poems. Langston Hughes. New York: Vintage Books, 1974, 187.

Langston Hughes. "Ballad of the Landlord" aus Montage of a Dream Deferred. Selected Poems, S. 38-9.

5. Nach dem 2. Weltkrieg

Arthur Miller. Death of a Salesman. New York: The Viking Press, 1969.

Rezension

Edward Albee. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? N.Y.: Atheneum, 1969.

LeRoi Jones (Baraka). "Dutchman". Anthology of Am.Lit. II. Realism to the Present. Hg. George McMichael. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc., 1974, 1918-33.

LeRoi Jones (Baraka). "Black Art". Understanding the New Black Poetry. Hg. Stephen Henderson. New York: William Morrow & Company Inc., 1973, 213.

Ralph Ellison. Invisible Man. London, New York: Penguin Books, 1965.

Rezension

Joseph Heller. Catch 22. New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1961.

Rezension

Toni Morrison. Sula. London: Picador, 1991.

Leslie M. Silko. Ceremony. London, New York: Penguin Books, 1986.

Malcolm X. The Autobiography. New York: Ballantine Books, 1992.

Bernard Malamud. "Angel Levine". The Magic Barrel. New York: Avon Books, 1981, 41-53.

Tillie Olsen. "I Stand Here Ironing". Women and Fiction. Hg. Susan Cahill. New York, Scarborough: New Am. Library, 1975, 162-71.

Tillie Olsen. "One Out Of Twelve. Writers Who are Women in Our Century". Silences. New York. Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1979, 22-46.

Grace Paley. "Two Short Sad Stories from a Long and Happy Life". The Little Disturbances of Man. London: Virago Press, 1980, 127-45.

Cynthia Ozick. "Puttermesser: Her Work History, Her Ancestry, Her Afterlife". Levitation. New York: E.P. Dulton, Inc., 1983, 21-38.

Robert Coover. "The Babysitter". the naked i. Hg. Frederick R. Karl, Leo Hamalian. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publication Inc., 1971, 169-98.

Mari Evans. "Vive Noir". Understanding the New Black Poetry. Hg. Stephen Henderson. New York: William Morrow & Company Inc., 1973, 247-49.

Adrienne Rich. "Snapshots". The Norton Anthology of Lit. by Women. Hg. Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1985, 2026-29.

Sylvia Plath. "Daddy". The Heath Anthology of Am.Lit. Vol. 2. Hg. Paul Lauter. Lexington, Mass., Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company, 1990, 2432-34.

Gary Snyder. "Revolution in the Revolution in the Revolution". Regarding Wave. New York: New Directions Books. 1970, 39.

6. Filmliste

Charlie Chaplin. The Pawnshop (1916). Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Big Business (1929).

Erich von Stroheim. Greed (1925).

Buster Keaton. The General (1926).

Howard Hawks. Scarface (1932).

Frank Capra. It Happened One Night (1934).

Edward Cline. My Little Chickadee (1940).

Orson Welles. Citizen Kane (1941).

Alfred Hitchcock. Shadow of a Doubt (1943).

Michael Curtiz. Mildred Pierce (1945).

Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly. Singin' in the Rain(1952).

John Ford. The Searchers (1956).

Dennis Hopper. Easy Rider (1969).

John Cassavetes. A Woman under the Influence (1974).

Martin Scorsese. Taxi Driver (1976).

Ridley Scott. Blade Runner (1982) oder David Cronenberg. Videodrome (1982).

Gregory Nava. El Norte (1983).

Stanley Kubrick. Full Metal Jacket (1987).

Spike Lee. Do the Right Thing (1989).

Oliver Stone. Natural Born Killers (1994).

7. Schwerpunkt "Theorie"

Jacques Derrida. "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences". 1966; Übers. Alan Bass, 1978; Modern Criticism and Theory. Hg. David Lodge. London, New York: Longman, 1988, 108-123.

Roland Barthes. "The Death of the Author". 1968; Übers. Stephen Heath, 1977; repr. Modern Criticism and Theory. Hg. David Lodge. London, New York: Longman, 1988, 167-172.

Michel Foucault. "What Is an Author?" 1969; Übers. Joseph V. Harari, 1979; Modern Criticism and Theory. Hg. David Lodge. London, New York: Longman, 1988, 197-210.

Stanley Fish. "What Makes an Interpretation Acceptable?" Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities. Cambridge, London: Harvard University Press, 1980, 338-355.

Barbara Johnson. "Melville's Fist: The Execution of Billy Budd". The Critical Difference. Baltimore: John Hopkins U. P., 1982, 79-109.

Terry Eagleton. "Introduction: What Is Literature?" Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1983, 1-16.

Donna Haraway. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century". 1985; Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. London: Free Association Books, 1991, 149-181.

Gloria Anzaldúa. "La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness". 1987; American Feminist Thought at Century's End: A Reader. Hg. Linda S. Kauffman. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1993, 427-440.

Winfried Fluck. Theorien amerikanischer Literatur. Konstanz: Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 1987.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning". The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism. New York, Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988, 44-88.

Trinh T. Minh-ha. "Outside In Inside Out". 1988; When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender, and Cultural Politics. New York, London: Routledge, 1991, 65-78.

Tania Modleski. "Introduction: Hitchcock, Feminism, and the Patriarchal Unconscious". The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory. New York, London: Routledge, 1988, 1-15.

Valerie Smith. "Black Feminist Theory and the Representation of the 'Other'". Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women. Hg. Cheryl A. Wall. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers U. P., 1989, 38-57.

Judith Butler. "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory". Performing Feminism: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre. Hg. Sue-Ellen Case. Baltimore: John Hopkins U. P., 1990, 270-282.

Wolfgang Karrer and Hartmut Lutz. "Minority Literatures in North America: From Cultural Nationalism to Liminality". Minority Literatures in North America: Contemporary Perspectives. Hg. Karrer und Lutz. Frankfurt a. M., New York: Peter Lang, 1990, 11-64.

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